MSI has announced a total of three 9500GT cards, all featuring a native HDMI connector. The crown jewel will be a GDDR3 card with MSI's Omni Curve cooling solution. Next in line is a reference cooled 9500GT with 512MB of GDDR2 memory, and the final card is a passively cooled 9500GT which will probably use the same GDDR2 memory.

The first is the N9500GT-MD512/D3 that works at reference 550MHz for the core and comes with 512MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 800MHz (1,600MHz effectively). The shaders on this card are clocked at 1,400MHz. This card is somewhat special as it uses MSI's Omni Curve cooling that extends the cooling surface and covers all the nearby components of the graphics card.

The next one is the reference cooled N9500GT-MD512/D2 which works at 550MHz for the core and comes with 512MB of GDDR2 memory clocked at 500MHz (1,000MHz) while the shader clock is set to 1,400MHz. 

Last but not least is the passively cooled N9500GT-MD512Z/D2. The passive cooling in question is something that MSI has to be proud of as it worked flawlessly on previous mainstream cards. The passively cooled card will end up with the same clocks as the actively cooled 9500GT with GDDR2 memory.

All of these cards come with a single DVI, D-Sub and an HDMI connector. There are some more models listed at MSI's global web site, but we are sure that these three will hit the European market. The Zalman cooled 9500GT Zilent listed here looks like a good card, but sadly due to the size of the heatsink, it becomes a dual slot card.

Here are some pictures of the MSI 9500GT trio.


N9500GT-MD512/D3


N9500GT-MD512/D2


N9500GT-MD512Z/D2